Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull, and John Lasseter said, in effect, ‘The only thing we’re afraid of is complacency, feeling like we have it all figured out. We want you to come shake things up. We will give you a good argument if we think what you’re doing doesn’t make sense, but if you can convince us, we’ll do things a different way.’ For a company that has had nothing but success to invite a guy who had just come off a failure and say, ‘Go ahead, mess with our heads, shake it up.’ When do you run into that?
What Google Could Learn From Pixar - Peter Sims - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
The title of this post should really be “What everyone could learn from Pixar”.
Continual self improvement is the only way to avoid falling flat on your face.
